Sorcerer Meteor Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Mage Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For any Meteor build, you must choose Sorcerer as your mastery or you will not have access to the spell. We put the majority of our points into the Sorcerer tree, but we also have a fair amount into the base Mage tree and the Spellblade tree. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Arcanist: Increases Intelligence and Fire/Lightning Resistances.
• 2 points into Scholar: Adds Flat Health and Mana.
• 6 points into Reactive Ward: Gives us a burst of Ward when we drop below 70% health.
• 5 points into Mage Flurry: Increases Attack/Cast speed and lowers cooldown for  Teleport.
• 3 points into Warden: Increases Ward Retention.
• 5 points into Sun and Storms : Increased Fire/Lightning damage, as well as gaining us Ward when we use Fire/Lightning skills.
• 3 points into Silver Rune: Increases Ward gained and reduces cooldown of previous nodes. This makes Sun and Storms much better.

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Mage Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For any Meteor build, you must choose Sorcerer as your mastery or you will not have access to the spell. We put the majority of our points into the Sorcerer tree, but we also have a fair amount into the base Mage tree and the Spellblade tree. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Calculated Destruction: Adds Intelligence and 3% Increased Critical Strike Chance per Intelligence.
• 8 points into Mana Shell: Adds Flat Mana and Armor.
• 6 points into Wisdom: Adds flat Mana and increased Mana Regen.
• 8 point into Pyromancer: Increases Fire Damage and Ignite Chance for Fire Skills.
• 5 points into Lavamancer: Increases Fire penetration and adds fire damage leech.
• 3 points into Arcane Insight: Adds Intelligence and a chance to gain Insight (granting 20% elemental damage and ward retention)
• 5 points into Spell Slinger: Adds Flat Spell Damage and increased Mana Regen.
• 5 points into Dragon Mage: Increases Elemental Damage based on which skill you used.
• 1 point into Mirror Breath: Swaps the effects of previous node around, so that our Lightning Skills now give a bonus to Fire instead.
• 5 points into Archmage: Adds flat Spell Damage, tripled if we are over 200 Mana.

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Mage Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For any Meteor build, you must choose Sorcerer as your mastery or you will not have access to the spell. We put the majority of our points into the Sorcerer tree, but we also have a fair amount into the base Mage tree and the Spellblade tree. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Arcane Warden: Gives us a flat amount of Ward whenever we hit with an Elemental Melee Attack.
• 6 points into Elemental Affinity: Increased Elemental Damage and Elemental Resistance.
• 1 point into Warden's Echo: Chance to create an Elemental Burst when we gain ward from previous node. Mostly taken because we needed to spend 1 more point in tree to unlock later nodes.
• 5 points into Arcane Shielding: Reduces damage taken and adds Ward per second when you land a Melee Attack.
• 5 points into Shattered Aegis: Changes Arcane Shielding to be less effective, but can stack up to four times. At max stacks, we gain 6% more damage mitigation, 12 Ward per second and 80% increased Armor over the base ability.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

The main damaging ability of our build. We are looking to improve it's damage and reduce the Mana cost of the spell, as it is quite expensive by default. To improve damage, we want as many meteors to fall as possible and to boost the critical multiplier, as we will be very close to crit cap for spells. Meteor has one of the highest damage effectiveness ratios in the game, so we also try to get as much flat spell damage as possible elsewhere.

• 1 point into Force of Impact: Increased Stun chance and Duration.
• 3 points into Rapid Descent: Increases fall speed of the Meteors.
• 1 point into Twin Meteors: Adds another Meteor, but increases Mana cost.
• 3 points into Meteor Shower: Adds three more meteors, but reduces the radius that they deal damage.
• 1 point into Rapid Impacts: Increases Meteor Fall frequency.
• 1 point into Rain of Fire: Adds one more meteor.
• 1 point into Distant Craters: Adds damage, but causes Meteors to fall further apart.
• 4 points into Mana Fall: Reduces the Mana cost of Meteor.
• 4 points into Extinction: Adds flat Critical Chance to Meteor and 40% chance for a Large Meteor to fall. This node is very important for helping us to get to 100% Critical Strike Chance for Meteor.
• 3 points into Astral Cataclysm: Increases Critical Multiplier for Meteor.
• 2 points into Craterborn: Gives us a buff that adds some Fire Penetration, as well as increasing Cast Speed, though this is less relevant as we are mostly melee attacking with  Mana Strike.

If you do not have all the points from gear yet, you can trim from Craterborn or Astral Cataclysm.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Mana Strike is our main ability used. However, this is not our main damage ability. Its main purpose is to recover Mana and proc our other spells. Therefore, we focus on increasing the utility of Mana Strike as much as possible, especially how much Mana it generates for us.

• 4 points into Swift Sap: Increases Mana Strike's Attack speed.
• 1 point into Sprite Blade: Increases the Area Mana Strike hits.
• 4 points into Mana Drain: Increases the Mana gained.
• 5 points into Critical Mana: Adds flat Mana gained on Criticals.
• 1 point into Critical Rejuvenation: Massively increases the base critical chance of Mana Strike, but it no longer deals extra damage on Crits. This is hardly a drawback for the build.
• 3 points into Reclamation: Adds more flat Mana gained when we are below zero mana.
• 3 points into Arcanist's Blade: More flat Mana gained on hit.
• 2 points into Transfusion: Gives us Ward gain on hit based on how much Mana gained on hit. This should be over 20 Ward per hit, and upwards of 30 when below 0 Mana.

If you do not have the 3 extra points from gear yet. You can trim points from Transfusion and/or Critical Mana, depending on if you feel you need more mana or more survivability.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

While we have specialized into  Frost Claw, it will not be on our skill bar. We use that slot for an un-specced  Teleport for mobility. It automatically triggers off  Mana Strike on 30% of hits. When attacking three or more enemies, this is almost guaranteed to trigger. With the amount of Attack Speed we are stacking, it will also trigger quite often even on single targets. However, we are not trying to boost the damage of  Frost Claw but rather use it as another way to proc  Meteor on crits, and as a secondary mana generator.

• 3 points into Shiver Shell: Gives a chance to cast Frost Claw when hit, and generates Ward whenever Frost Claw is triggered.
• 1 point into Reowyn's Veil: Generates Ward based on Freeze Rate Multiplier.
• 3 points into Macuahuitl: The most important node we take, as this is what triggers Frost Claw when are attacking.
• 4 points into Rending Cascade: Gives Frost Claw higher base Critical Chance, very important for hitting 100% critical chance, and increased Freeze Rate Multiplier.
• 3 points into Gift of Winter: Reduces the Mana cost of Frost Claw and a chance to gain extra Mana on cast.
• 2 points into Artor's Sceptre: More Damage and Frostbite chance.
• 1 point into Frost Beyond Time: Increased Ailment Duration inflicted by Frost Claw.
• 3 points into Celestial Conflux: Chance to cast  Elemental Nova when Frost Claw's projectiles reach a target. This spell can crit and then proc  Meteor as well.
• 1 point into Spark Artillery: Converts Frost Claw to Lightning.
• 2 points into Spark of Celerity: Increased projectile speed and Mana efficiency.

If you do not have the 2 extra points from gear yet, you have two options. If you are finding yourself at negative Mana all the time, you could trim them from Celestial Conflux. If you feel like you are at full Mana all the time and not proccing tons of Meteors, then you may trim them from Spark of Celerity instead.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

To increase our survivability, we specialize into  Flame Ward. Most notably, we take the node to autocast it whenever we get stunned. If you prefer, you could even leave it off your skill bar and use some un-specced skill there instead. Relying on it to only proc when stunned. However, it is nice to have it on there as a panic button for when you get low. We are focusing our points on taking nodes that increase the amount of Ward and survivability it will provide us.

• 5 points into Stalwart Defense: Adds a flat amount of Ward gained.
• 1 point into Desperate Defense. A percent of missing health is added as Ward.
• 3 points into Fuel The Flames: Increased Ward granted, but adds time to the cooldown.
• 1 point into Dual Aegis: Gives an extra charge of  Flame Ward, allowing us to cast it twice.
• 5 points into Barrier: Less hit damage taken while  Flame Ward is active.
• 3 points into Dilation: Increased duration and mana efficiency.
• 3 points into Energize: Adds Ward per second while  Flame Ward is active.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

Much like  Frost Claw and  Flame Ward, we will be automating the casting of this. However, unlike those two, this must to be on your skill bar. It will not cast automatically otherwise.  Enchant Weapon adds a ton of nice bonuses to our build, such as cleansing ailments and casting  Elemental Nova. However, most importantly, it increases our attack speed for  Mana Strike.

• 5 points into Celerity: Large increase to Melee Attack Speed while active.
• 4 points into Concentration: Increases the active duration by 4 seconds.
• 3 points into Efficacy: Reduces the Mana cost and increases Melee Elemental Damage.
• 1 point into Kindling Blade: Automatically casts whenever it's off cooldown, but has to be on the hotbar to work.
• 1 point into Cleansed by the Elements: Cleanses ailments whenever cast, but increases Mana cost.
• 1 point into Unstable Enchantment: Casts  Elemental Nova whenever activated, giving us another potential  Meteor trigger.
• 3 points into Fulminate: Increases Melee Shock Chance.
• 1 point into Conduit: Casts  Zap at nearby enemies while active, giving us more potential  Meteor triggers.
• 1 point into Capacitance: Increase the frequency of  Zap.

If you happen to have additional points from gear pieces, you can put them into Capacitance.